The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-25
NEWS or rnr THEATRES.

AChuomy
fsunsss plenty In general wsy. and scsnt merit but
one defect was particularly damaging 70 the venture
The audience waited every evening for climax which
the play did not contain. The rescue OF the heroine
from real water had been regarded By % sxperencsda
man Joseph jefferson the buainess sponsor Of the
drama the thing with which 10 end M bot the people
desired 10 know something further Of the poor Eris HE
tor and aimed seated until informed By the lowered
sas the show was over An has been sddsd and
. full moneys worth IL now satisfactorily given.
An actress In the same drama seeming TO realize
that shs must DO something striking 70 make her.
self felt elaborates her dying By rubbing white
powder her face she lies the door In the nrs
aeones Of poison and then totsns to her feet In sud
den and awful ehastliness before the nnaifan.
The Boston oarsman Hosmer. and the two scenes Of
real water have made Dark Secret" profitable and
four weeks run OF the strange p,eodrama seems 10
sursd Il not surprising that Hosmsr has developed
into not very awkward actor Ho clever At pretty
nearly everything he attsmpts and mimicry has
long been his amusement When he 10 at home on the
Charles River he draw . crowd at any time
BY giving his limitations Of rival oarsmsn. and he
Il something Of . success besides - ward
politician in ono Of the intensely Democratic
districts Of the Hub. In "A Dark Secret" he
has twenty lines TO speak and he delivers them
with easy nonohalance not common 10 the athletic
novice on tho stage. Nsxt week Dora Goidthwate the
plump and pretty who has been playing the for
ward heroine Of the piece win ioavo the cast 10 20 on
tho road with Louis Aidrioh, with whom for many ses
sons she has played Nam Brdndcn In my Partner"
Her place will be died By Adeline stanhope Of the
thrown out Of employment BY Helen Dauvrays
physical and financial collapse 10 solsmny promised
that Mss sanhope win actually fall into the water In
the river and that she win be safe In doing this
because she ID an expert swimmer. II 10 explained BY
the Academy management that although Miss Gold
thwsite, TIE suH has explained uses substitute
In this moist adventure, that proxy 10 not
man. has been charged Tho dummy 10 young
woman who knows all about swimming. but nothing
about acting save % much a. 70 necessary 70 simulate
the agony Of drowning person and that she does very
we'll
Tho change Of bill at the Buou from the inanity Of
John Macksy and "circus in Town" 70 the brskness
Of Nellie MeHsnry and "rhs Hummins Brd."h srsas
improvement Mis- MoHenry has moro main strength
than decscy and abe insists upon doing something co
lent matter thers 10 nothng that ought to be done
at all She works With all her might necessarily. and
sometimes her audience feels DESTROYS Of little rest
bat abe 10 handsome clever and aushabs In much
that she doca She II . high favorits, TOO,
aud her arms and legs distribute her fun
slsovsr the little B1ou stage. "The Hummins Bird"
successful now Although Il failed two ysars ago the
difference being csnsed By the injection Of new musical
and faroioai material There Il neither ereat improve
mens deterioration In the Salisbury rrouoadours-
Miss McHenrys chief assistant In John q. Webster. .
duigent actor. and generally agreeable The piece
has three weeks to run before Rice Dtxey will BE-
able to como over from Boston with their spectacular
pectsd TO last all winter at the Btou and possibly make
necessary tho postponement till next season Of Dixsy
ravesty OF Faust" Perhaps this would be rsky policy
The time for the akeo6 OF Faust" should not be too
far away from IrvnRs venture In the serious Faust"
Dxsy has started on the road with "AdouiA" Last
week he played in New Jersey and New York and this
week no crosses into Now England he has had sur
prisngiy big houses 30 far.
Two elegant and beautiful actresses Mrs. LanGtry ct
the Fifth Avenue and Nme de Naucoase at the Lycsu,
arc showing ladies smoke cigarettes gracefully
II not admirably.
"rhs MARQUIS 10 doing well at the casins where Il
ought without much trouble throughout the str
teen weeks planned for It AZ the end Of that time
cordug to the plans Of . few weeks ago, was to be
sent out to the big cities, while the wilson.Hail
"Erminio" troupe wsro to return to tho homo
theatre to produce Tho oolah." BY Rossnfeld
and Wilson. But probably the Aronsons do
not feel very kindly Mr. wilson he signed to col
II will b surprising generosity on their part "Ths
oolah" the Casino footltghta In the contro
vsrsy Aronsons have plainly secured professional
sympathy. Wilson'S popularity ~ . comic actor win
hardly fat him with the general public however, NO
matter how sharp his business practices may be- and
the upshot OF ali seems to b that Wilson Il gradually
acquiring an aoutsness that fsi to make him. h
his own FOOD time New York manager
Aweek from Wednesday night Daly's viii opsn for the
fall and winter with new comedy In which the
cast will b composed Of tho principal people Of the
DAILY company.
In fortnight tho run Of "A Hole in the Ground" At
the Fourteenth Street win nnsh. and during that time
good ssed audiences kev to be for the skt
has met with marked favor in spite Of its
frothinesA On Oct. 10 Minnie Palmer will com.
msnce an engagement Of two WEEKS playing
"The Ring and the Refer" and her old time my Sweet
heart" sho has reserved "Pert and her stspmother"
declares her husband John RoEerA for run later
RsynodA and her chief comedians ars I. J. Hawkins
and Charles W. Allison. Aftsrward there will BE- pre-
.entious revival Of Baron Rudolph in IL form
and then Denrnan Thompson in "The Old Homestead"
Frank Rogerss version Of As in . Looking Glass"
with Mrs Langtry a. Lena Despdrd must Of necessity
hold tho Fifth Avenue stage until Oct 20. Then there
will Be . striking change from Englands beauty 70
Americas most-tak cd about society woman and OK
queen OF amateurs MrA James Brown Potter sailed
from London yesterday She has further excited dis
cussion by dining with Sarah Bernhard and ordering
Of "'Ostler joe"
Tho tour Of French sangers "Hsrbor Lights com
pany opens night at the Grand where It will
stay only week. The pretty scenery and ingenious
eontrvanees at walaoks In the orix
nal production have been preserved The picture In the
fourth for tho inherent weakness Of the play
Here young girl 10 thrown from olin by tho murder
Ing villain gallant young Lieutenant dnshes after her
opiy to Ind her lying senseless below. Then occursa
revolving scene stronger tnan any Dlon nAs
over conceived, and that saying good deal Wheels
ropes mysteously 70 disclose the rescuer de-
,cending tho steep olin hand hand while huge bill
dash the senseess form ofthe girl at tho foot
There Is NO need Of change Of bill at Dockstaderh
who're the superane semcircis. somebody calls the
arst part nightly plcases audience which occupies
very seat and laughs at every point. The singers
III doing admirably. Dockstaders patrons ind . con-
sert Of merit combined with quality Of fun
his house. "Ths Fall Of New Babylon" and trick
horse saluted with great laughter The new bur
"Dr Jekyh and Mr. Hyde" 10 to DO produced
IN Monday Dot but II 10 difncuit to how It
iisplace any portion Of tho bright programme
More sincerity In the announcements Of plays would
command public respect "Fhyrne," lust produced a.
new In Francisco proves DO Led Astray worked
,ver "Monbara" which n. D. Msnten has been herald
ing as original work. 10 translation from tho French
u Circus in Town was unacknowlodged adaptation
from tho Danish. "Tho Humming Bird II an uncon.
lessed theft from the German These instances Of
single week.
This u tho last week Of "Ths Wiley West ct Harr
rans Park That the farce has remained In tho city
ong 10 tribute the financial grit OF s baoksr Next
week Harlan and his we-nkod company win be at